书单｜Flipped

Flipped

8.9

Wendelin Van Draanen / 2003 / Ember

Driving Under

词汇/短语

1. back off 退后，靠边站

原文：For her to back off —— you know, just give me some space.

2. barge into my life 闯入我的生活

原文：She didn't just barge into my life. She barged and shoved and wedged her way into my life.

3. take a hint 领会别人的暗示

原文：This was the beginning of my soon-to-become- acute awareness that the girl cannot take a hint.

4. right off 立刻，马上; a ditch play 坑人的把戏

原文：I knew right off that this was a ditch play.

5. get lost 迷路，走开，滚开

原文：I planted myself and was about to tell her to get lost when the weirdest thing happened.

6. yank me along 拉着我

原文：I tried to shake her off, but she just clamped on tight and yanked me along, saying, "C'mon!"

7. my fiery red face 我又红又热的脸

原文：My mom's grinning, looking at our hands and my fiery red face.

8. dive behind 躲在后面

原文：Finally I break free and do the only manly thing available when you're seven years old —— I dive behind my mother.

9. peek out the door 从门缝往外看

原文：Another ten minutes went by before I got the nerve to peek out the door.

10. in the nick of time 在关键时刻

原文：I spotted her in the nick of time and dove under my bed. (dove 为 dive 的过去式)

11. Don't snap at the bait. 别上当

12. Let it dangle. 随它去

13. Laugh it off. 一笑置之

14. get clobbered 受到打击，遭受重创

原文：It is way better to dive down and get out of the way than it is to get clobbered by some parental tidal wave.

15. true to form 一如既往

原文：Anyway, true to form, Lynetta tried to bait me with Juli those firse few days.

16. be dying to 渴望

原文：So believe me, I was dying to go outside.

17. sit on the curb 坐在路缘石上

原文：And when she wasn't busy showing off, she'd just sit on the curb with the ball between her feet, staring at our house.

18. at recess 课间，休息

原文：And then when she chased me around at recess and tried to lay kisses on me.

19. ward ... off 避开

原文：What better way to ward Juli off?

20. it beats me why 不明白为什么

原文：You have to understand that Juli hates Shelly Stalls. She always has, though it beats me why.

21. dump me 甩了我

原文：Shelly officially dumped me and started going out with Kyle Larsen.

22. goo-goo eyes 色迷迷的眼神

原文：Then Juli started up with the goo-goo eyes again, and I was back to square one.

23. written in perfect cursive 完美漂亮的书写

原文：See, suddenly Juli's perfect answers, written in perfect cursive, were right across the aisle, just an eye-shot away.

24. when the dust finally settled 等尘埃落定

25. take a dive 暴跌

原文：And since I couldn't see her perfectly penned answers anymore, my grades took a dive.

26. count on 依靠，指望

原文：The bad thing about it was that I started counting on her spelling in my ear.

一点点感悟

从Bryce对于姐姐找麻烦时的态度来看，他是聪明又成熟的，而他对Juli的态度，抄作业以后的亏欠心理等等，都使他像是一个始终被困在局里的普通人；Juli很聪明，独立于环境之外，有自己的世界，但是她喜欢闻Bryce身上的味道这点，真的无法理解。

Flipped

词汇/短语

1. lunatic adj. 精神错乱的；疯狂的；愚蠢的; n. 疯子；疯人

原文：Honestly, one look at him and I became a lunatic.

(在chapter 1中出现的近义词，maniac n. 疯子，躁狂者；adj. 发狂的；狂热的；癫狂的

原文：That maniac started leaning forword and sniffing my hair.)

2. the dribbling of a soccer ball 运球 (在chapter 1中出现过)

move from chore to chore 躲避家务

原文：She would't tolerate the dribbling of a soccer ball around the house as I moved from chore to chore.

3. stretch their legs 伸展腿；缓一缓放松一下

原文：“Give them a chance to stretch their legs, Julianna,”she said. "They'll want some time to adjust."

4. worn out 疲惫不堪的；耗尽的

原文：I remember feeling sorry for Mr. Loski because he looked worn out, moving boxes all by himself.

5. catapult me into 迫使我进入 （重复出现）

原文：The tragedy of it catapulted me into the moving van.

6. wiggle the bathroom doorknob 晃动浴室门把手

原文：I shouldn't have, though, because she wiggled the bathroom doorknob and started teasing Bryce something fierce.

7. My mouth was watering just looking at it! 看到美食流口水时的表达

8. whiny adj. 烦躁的；爱抱怨的；常发牢骚的 ninny n. 笨人,傻子

原文：A whiny, gossipy, backstabbing ninny who says one thing to one person and the opposite to another.

9. run laps 跑圈 do calisthenics 做操

原文：Especially when it came to P.E. I never once saw her run laps or do calisthenics.

10. sweep the event 将所有奖牌收入囊中

原文：If there was an Olympic contest for talking, Shelly Stalls would sweep the event.

11. What bugged me about it was... 让我感到厌烦的是……

原文：What bugged me about it was not the fact that she got out of P.E. — who'd want her on their team, anyway?

12. it dawned on me 我突然意识到

原文：Then it dawned on me — he needed my help.

13. in two seconds flat 两分钟内完成

原文： I didn't even bother checking around for other candidates — I had her off him in two seconds flat.

14. no amount of 无论再大……也没用

原文：I had Fluffy in a headlock and her arm twisted back in a hammerlock, and no amount of her squawking and scratching was going to get me un lock her until a teacher arrived.

15. it bothered my conscience 让我感到自责

原文：And even though it bothered my conscience, I'd lean in and whisper answers to him, hoping that maybe I could spend lunch with him instead.

美句

当小Juli和小Bryce一次牵手时，Juli的感受——

And the only thing keeping you from drifting away is the other person's eyes. They're connected to yours by some invisible physical force, and they hold you fast while the rest of the world swirls and twirls and falls completely away.

一点点感悟

Juli的妈妈真是个智慧的女性，Bryce刚到的时候，不让Juli马上就去打招呼，给别人充足的空间；人在最初认识的时候，由于互相不了解很容易产生误会，所以要多一点耐心，不要那么轻易下定论。

Buddy, Beware!

词汇/短语

1. have enough of her yakking about 受够了她喋喋不休地说着关于……的话

原文：One day last year I'd finally had enough of her yakking about that that stupid tree.

2. visually challenged 视觉障碍

原文：She said I was visually challenged.

3. go a little overboard 有一点过火

原文：So while Mike and Matt are busy plumping up their boa, I'm having to mow and edge our yard, then sweep the walkways and gutter, which is going a little overboard, if you ask me.

4. outdo 超过

原文：So I made a mental picture of how high she'd climbed, and the next day I set off to outdo her by at least two branches.

5. weenie 胆小鬼

原文：I was indeed a tree-climbing weenie.

6. buffer zone 缓冲带 comfort zone 舒服区

原文：There were about eight kids altogether at our bus stop, which created a buffer zone, but it was no comfort zone.

7. pull in 进站

原文：That's when I heard a commotion up the hill and could see some big trucks parked up on Collier Street where the bus pulls in.

8. Chain saws. 链条锯

9. pesky 烦人的 bossy 专横的 know-it-all 自以为无所不知的

原文：The girl arguing with those men was Juli — the world's peskiest, bossiest, most know-it-all female.

10. dismember vt. 分割…的肢体,肢解

原文：It was like watching someone dismember a body, and for the first time in ages, I felt like crying.

11. summon me into 叫我去……

原文：Then that night, right before dinner, my grandfather summoned me into the front room.

12. blow him off 拒绝他

原文：But I couldn't exactly blow him off.

13. recreational adj. 休养的,娱乐的

原文：It's a real recreational activity for him.

14. amputate vt. 切断；删除；截肢

原文：Another few pounds and that ring's going to amputate this finger.

15. flop down 扑到 fume about 对……感到愤怒

原文：I slammed my bedroom door and flopped down on the bed, and after fuming about my sorry excuse for a grandfather.

16. sulky adj. 愠怒的，绷着脸的，生闷气的；不搭理人的

原文：At dinner my mother asked me why I was so sulky, and she kept looking from me to my grandfather.

17. be miffed at 对……生气

原文：She just kept eyeing me and Granddad, trying to pick up on why we were miffed at each other.

18. sneak a peek 瞅一眼，偷看

原文：And I completely avoided looking at him until about halfway through dinner, when I sneaked a peak.

19. weird me out 使我感到纳闷不自在

原文：And it weirded me out. What was his deal?

20. unsolicited adj. 未被恳求的,主动提供的 edification n. 教诲；启迪；精神修养 take cuts 插队

原文：She didn't make unsolicited comments for the teacher's edification or challenge the kids who took cuts in the milk line.

21. on the lookout 注意，留心观察

原文：I even caught myself looking for her. Not on the lookout, just looking.

22. the last thing I needed was... 我最不希望发生的事是……

原文：After all, the last thing I needed was for Juli Baker to think I missed her.